Thank you,
Alan

In visual studio 2005, rebuilding a commonly edited project takes 5
minutes if "Copy Local = True" on all of our project references (this
is a very large solution with 117 projects).  If I set "Copy Local =
False" the rebuild only takes 13 seconds!  The problem with setting

I figured out why the VS2005 open tabs on left bothers me so much. It's
because it moves my "known" primary screens each time a new tab opens.
For example, say I have my class diagram open as the first tab and the
file I'm working on as the second tab. Now I want to take a quick ...

Does anyone know if it is possible to run the VS2003 IDE side by side with
VS2005 IDE?
Thanks

I've found a very annoying bug in VS.NET 2003 Ent. Arch running on a XP pro
SP2. In a web project, I was using the .RES files associated to each page to
store string resources, when I've started noticing that the resources I was
adding were lost at some point. After a quick ...

i write a aspp.net control in vb.net
i want that from properties in the designer and from object browswer help
will open my help file.
how can i do this ?

Something must have changed from the way 2003 vs 2005 handles solutions and
I'm overlooking something.
I want to create a solution that has a couple of class libraries, and also a
web project in it but I can't see a way to add an existing project to a

Why does Visual Studio 2005 not have a Tab WebControl?  They have every
other control.

_sometimes_ when I save a file in the IDE, I get a blue screen of death.
It _seems_ to happen most often when saving web user controls.
this also happened in the RC build.   The blue screen says:
"a thread tried to release a resource it did not own"

When i try opening up a project from source control in VS2005 RTM, i get the
following dialog box:
There are no solution or project files in this location.  Please select a
different location.

Every time I compile a solution I want it to run "editbin /LARGEADDRESSAWARE"
on the resulting .exe.
I have tried putting editbin in the project properties "Post-build Event
Command Line", but no matter how I try it won't work.  Even if I hardcode the

After firing up VS2005, I loaded an application that was originally written with 1.1. In this I had a lot of references that uses:
System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings[]
I see the Warning:
Warning 5 'System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings' is ...

Whenever I want to run a macro inside VS2005, I get a runtime error in
"vsmsvr.exe". Neither a repair installation nor a complete
uninstall/install solved the problem.
The problem started after I accidently removed the VSMacros80 folder

   I just installed the vs.net 2005 prof. and I cannot find the SQL Server
node in the Servers tab. In vs.net 2003, that node was there and I was able
to manage everything I needed (regarding mssql db) from there. From what I
read, it should be there in this version, maybe I ...

I've been using VS 2005 without problems, but unexpectedly I'm getting now
the following message when I try to open or even to create a Windows
Application:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Microsoft.Common.targets:The